Reddit reviews Forty Million Dollar Slaves: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Black Athlete
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If someone in a Reddit thread with 16 comments came up with this - you think national media won't? To counter your "no, it's okay, I swear" explanation... someone already wrote a bestselling novel titled Forty Million Dollar Slaves.
It's not an erroneous criticism. It's 100% legitimate.
I'll probably get downvoted for this, but hopefully I can offer some insight into Jackson's comments.
A sports columnist for The New York Times by the name of William C. Rhoden wrote a book entitled Forty Million Dollar Slaves: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Black Athlete. In his book, Rhoden draws parallels between how the owners and/or management of sports franchises dictate the fate of their players irrespective of their wishes to how a slave master values a slave as a piece of property in which the slave master owns.
A lot of people will preemptively dismiss anything Jesse Jackson has to say because of the baggage he carries, but in all fairness, Jackson didn't say anything about race or even accuse Dan Gilbert of racism. Spike Lee also made a (less brash, but) similar statement about Dan Gilbert not owning LeBron on ESPN.
If you're interested in reading Rhoden's reaction to all the LeBron James drama, you can read it on The New York Times website.
Don't kill the messenger.
Actually, there is a book that makes that exact argument.
check out the 40 million dollar slave https://www.amazon.com/Forty-Million-Dollar-Slaves-Redemption/dp/0307353141, its not literal, but irs interesting to look at sports in a greater context of American capitalist systems.
Forty Million Dollar Slaves?
Good book
Forty Million Dollar Slaves: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Black Athlete https://www.amazon.com/dp/0307353141/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_BqyQCb57SFKZ7
unless one of those 'numerous' professionals were Bell, it's irrelevant and people looking to get offended for the sake of being offended.
And it's not like there isn't actual reasoning for the comparison if you take the 10 seconds to actually think rather then just going, durr slaves didn't get paid end of conversation hurr.
On a more serious note, someone actually wrote a book about this called "40 Million Dollar Slaves".
http://www.amazon.com/Forty-Million-Dollar-Slaves-Redemption/dp/0307353141
I had to read it for a bullshit nigger loving English composition class in college. It's an alright book though.